Monument to the French writer Marcel Aime Montmartre looks very unusual: two-meter bronze sculpture only partially looks out of a stone wall - visible head, torso, right arm, right leg and left hand. This is the brush polished to a shine hands countless tourists: legend has it that a handshake monument brings good luck.

Marcel Aymé (1902-1967) is not very well known in Russia, but France knew him as an outstanding writer and playwright. His musical legacy is enormous: 17 novels, plays, novels, stories, film scripts.

In 1943, Aimee wrote one of his most famous story - "A man passing through walls." The hero of the story, a modest official Dutilleul lived in Montmartre. He was remarkable in that it had the gift easily pass through walls. In the story Dutilleul first uses his gift to punish the chief-cad, then robbing banks, and then picks an affair with the beautiful, which is locked at home jealous husband. When the official leaves the bedroom lover gift it disappears and it remains forever immured in the wall.

Monument in Montmartre, the famous fashioned film actor Jean Marais, inspired by this particular story, but imparted sculpture portrait likeness with the appearance of the writer. Jean Marais is no accident took this job: Marcel Aimé he had a long close friendship. Film actor had very different talents, but especially drawn to sculpture. Pablo Picasso acquainted with the works of Mara, wondering how a man with so much talent, "is spending its time for some shooting in film and work in the theater."

Monument Marcel Aime appeared in Montmartre in 1989. Fitting is not accidental: the writer, like the hero of his story, he lived in the famous quarter for more than forty years. The area, on the corner where the sculpture, called now his name.